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CHD participated in IPHU short course in Bangkok, Thailand
Representatives from Council for Health and Development and IBON Foundation completed their short course on “Action for Equitable Health Systems – Advancing universal comprehensive primary health care in pandemic times” by International People’s Health University (IPHU) in Bangkok, Thailand from December 6-11, 2022. This short course aims to build a better understanding among health activists…
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On International Human Rights Day, most Filipinos still do not enjoy a right to health
On International Human Rights Day, most Filipinos still do not enjoy a right to health; despite the pandemic, inequity in access to health services has risen amid marginal changes to infrastructure and budget—failing Constitutional and international obligations to protect and fulfill the people’s right to health and its defenders The United Nations fully defines the…
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A walk on the periphery
This article is from Global Sisters Report, written by Sr. Edita Eslopor, a member of CHD Board of Trustees. Original article can be found here: https://www.globalsistersreport.org/news/social-justice/column/walk-periphery I have read many articles that say walking has powerful benefits. As an exercise, it may lower our risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes. It can…
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The president’s directives on health: Detached, shallow and vague
PRESS STATEMENTHealth groups Alliance of Health Workers, Coalition for People’s Right to Health, Filipino Nurses United, Health Action for Human Rights, Health Alliance for Democracy, and Philippine Medical Students’ Association expressed their critique and counter-proposals to the recent SONA of Pres. Marcos Jr. The president’s directives on health: Detached, shallow and vagueIn the principles of…
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Health groups participate in a consultation workshop on UN Universal Periodic Review
Quezon City, Philippines — Various civil society organizations (CSOs), including Council for Health and Development, Bantay Bakuna and the Coalition for People’s Right to Health participated in “CSOs Consultation on the UN Universal Periodic Review of the Philippines”, a two-day consultation workshop held from June 22 to 23, 2022 in Quezon City, National Capital Region.…
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CHD and other health organizations participated in “Picnic sa Bantayog” in Quezon City, sets up a health booth.
Yesterday, the Council for Health and Development, together with the Health Alliance for Democracy, Health Action for Human Rights, Alliance of Health Workers, and Philippine Medical Students’ Association set-up a health booth during the “Picnic sa Bantayog” event at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani, Quezon City to provide free health consultations and medical check-ups to…
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There is no right to health without the right to food, release the “Tinang 92”
The Council for Health and Development (CHD) is one with the farmers and land advocates in Hacienda Tinang, Concepcion, Tarlac in asserting for their right to land and execution of the Certificate of Land Ownership and Award (CLOA) that was first issued to them in 1995 under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). Likewise, CHD…
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Violence against health-care workers in the Philippines
Filipino health-care workers have not been immune to the growing violence and impunity in the country since President Duterte took office in 2016. Since 2017, at least ten doctors have been violently killed in various regions of the Philippines. Six were killed in 2017 alone…
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A heart for health workers
On Valentine’s Day, the Council for Health and Development is one with all Filipino health workers in calling out the Philippine government for what the Alliance of Health Workers dub as “continued and outright negligence to their safety, protection, rights and welfare by implementing inhumane and anti-health workers’ policies.” Despite the same risks that our…
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Amid Omicron-driven surge, testing must finally be made free and accessible to all
Amid Omicron-driven surge, testing must finally be made free and accessible to all; renewed focus on community-based interventions needed against variants Just days into the new year and the country is facing yet another surge in COVID-19 cases. With the pandemic entering its third year in the Philippines and across the world, those handling the…
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Itaas ang badyet pangkalusugan para sa libreng serbisyo sa mamamayan!
Kasabay ng ginaganap na budget hearing ng Department of Health sa Senado ngayon, nagkaisang tumungo ang mga health workers at advocates sa Senado at nagsagawa ng motorcade upang igiit ang mas mataas na budget sa kalusugan sa halip na ito ay bawasan lalo pa at may pandemya. Marami sa atin ang nagkakasakit ngunit hindi makapunta…
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Pahayag ng Bantay Bakuna hinggil sa usapin ng “No Vaccine, No Work Policy”
Simula Agosto, nakakakuha ang mga kasamahan natin sa network ng mga ulat tungkol sa mga kumpanya na nagpapairal ng “no vaccine, no work policy”. Sa pagpapaigting ng nasyunal na programa sa pagbabakuna, laluna sa mga manggagawa, ay maraming ahensya ng gobyerno ang naglabas ng suporta para sa ganitong uri ng polisiya. Ngunit ayon sa inilabas…
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A year since the TRIPS waiver proposal, and the Philippines continues to waver on the waiver
This time last year, South Africa and India filed a proposal at the World Trade Organization seeking to remove intellectual property barriers and waive patents on diagnostics, medicines, vaccines, and technologies that will prevent, treat, and contain the pandemic. Since then, over 100 countries around the world have backed the move, including most African and…
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Community Health Workers at ang community pantry
Nagbukas ngayong araw ang community pantry sa Brgy. Bagong Silangan, Quezon City ang Parish Social Action Ministry at Community Health Workers (CHW) ng Samahan ng Manggagawang Kristyano sa Pamayanan (SMKP) sa pakikipagtulungan ng kanilang Kura Paroko Fr. Emman Vallega, O. Carm.Ang mga gulay na kanilang ipinamimigay ay nagmula sa proyektong urban farming ng lungsod na…
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Statement regarding the current state of vaccination
As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise, the government must hasten their COVID-19 pandemic response and effectively address the problems of the national vaccination program. The slow vaccination of health care workers, senior citizens and persons with co-morbidities, compounded by reports of well-connected individuals and government officials jumping the line add to grave…
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